There’s only one sport that can make you famous all around the world – football! Who did know for Abramovich before Chelsea, or Sheikh Mansour before Manchester City, or Glazers before Manchester United? Well, just when they bought football clubs they became well known. Here are the ten richest club owners/shareholders.

age: 70

nationality: American

estimated fortune: 4.97 billion euros

clubs: Houston Dynamo, LA Galaxy, USA

Last season LA Galaxy lost the title on penalties. One of the co-founders of the MLS League, he was the owner of five clubs.He inherits his father’s company, but subsequently increased manifold richness buying shares in the money and investing in real estate and railways.

age:57

nationality: Russian, Uzbek origins

estimated fortune: 5.1 billion euros

club: Arsenal, England ( stockholder )

Usmanov earns his money by working with steel, in telecommunications and in the money market. His battle with the Americans Stanley Kroenke, for majority control of shares in London’s Arsenal, last more than three years. Kroenke currently has 3.6 percent more shares.

age: 65

nationality: Cyprus, give up Norwegian

estimated fortune: 5.4 billion euros

club: Valerenga, Norway

Owns the largest fleet of tankers on world. As much as he hates to pay taxes, that much he likes football. That’s why he change his citizenship. Reportedly, declined to sell the villa in London for 142 million euros to Roman Abramovich. Medias claim he’s soon to buy a club in Premier League.

age: 74

nationality: French

estimated fortune: 6.1 billion euros

club: Stade Rennes, France

Wholesaler and scandal – master. Conflict with Gucci, investigation into the insurance company “Executive\s life” … darken the glow of this football lover. It’s believed to be the biggest collector of modern art in world. His company is co-owner of ” Puma”, ” Samsonite”, “Converse “…

age: 74

nationality: Italian

estimated fortune: 6.39 billion euros

club: Milan, Italy

Scandal-guru! Simulated sex with a policewoman who put a sentence on one of the cars in his escort, said to Barack Obama “that’s he got well – tanned “, hired prostitutes for an orgy in his villa, sleeping with a minor daughter of his friend … but AC Milan was five times Europe’s champion.

age: 44

nationality: Russian

estimated fortune: 8 billion euros

club: Chelsea, England

No longer a big spender like in the early days, Abramovic is shifting his interests in the business world away from oil and into Steel and Mining while hoping that this year will finally be the season that he seesChelsea win the Champions League after Ancelotti brought back the league title after three years finishing behind United.

age: 57

nationality: American

estimated fortune: 9.3 billion euros

club: Seattle Sounders, USA

Co-founder of Microsoft, is also the owner of the club that set a record in a visit to on one game.Allen also owns the NFL club Seattle Seahawks. Beside that, he is known for having invented a program that monitors e-mails in outlook.

age: 74

nationality: Spanish

estimated fortune: 17.7 billion euros

club: Deportivo la Coruna, Spain

Owner of the trade chain ” Inditex “ is the ninth richest man in the world. He is founder of ” Sara “, and the chain of the ” Inditex ” includes ” Massimo Dutti”, “Bershka”, “Stradivarius”, “Pool and bear”, “Oishi”…

age: 40

nationality: United Arab Emirates

estimated fortune: 19.7 billion euros

club: Manchester City, England

Rich in money and political power, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayen Al Nahyan is the biggest spender in the game, with 325 million pounds used on transfer deals in the last two seasons, bringing Tevez, Adebayor, Barry, Silva, Toure and many more to Eastlands. He bought the club for 210 million in August 2008 and seems willing to spend more in order to do to City what Abramovich did toChelsea , with rumors of something around 200 million pounds waiting to be put to good use in the transfer market. And for political power? Member of the UAE federal cabinet ; Married to Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, daughter. Not bad.